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free wing case and shellback material

hey guys and gals , the other day i noticed some construction workers were putting up some buildings up by my house and what caught my eye was the home wrap . its made by DUPONT and called TYVEK HOME WRAP . the stuff works great for wing cases and shell back . first thing you do is get a rotorery cutter and memory pad like the quilters use and cut it to the size you need and before you tye it on your hook . color both sides with a permanent marker( black or brown ) let it dry . the stuff is better than flexament treated feathers . before tying it in cut one of the ends to a point so its not to bulky at the tye in point .

jim

if nature calls... hang up. far from being able to tye a fly , im barely able to zip one.

hi stuck-in,If you do any backpacking, Tyvek makes a great, tough, lightweight groundcloth. Been using it that way for years. If you stop at a construction site, you can beg some scrap tyvek, enough for a few seasons of tying.

"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, andbeauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise"Aldo Leopold

lol , forget to mention that i stopped by and talked to one of the workers and asked if they had any scraps that i could have . by my surprise, he gave me all there scraps they cut from the end of the roll . some were 2' - 4 ' wide and about 50 ' long each . ( 5 scrap rolls in all ) it will last a life time of fly tying .

chase creek thanks for the tip on ground cloth for backpacking . bet if i asked them they would cut out a bigger piece if i told them what it was going to be used for.

the stuff works great for caddis and stonefly wings .

jim

if nature calls... hang up. far from being able to tye a fly , im barely able to zip one.

Another source for spun-bonded polyolefin (aka Tyvek and several other brand names) are the white plastric envelopes often used to mail large catalogs and such. Essentially the same material, different use. The materials are easily colored with Prisma color markers and Sharpie type markers.